Rovio’s Tiny Thief is one of the best point and click adventure games to debut on mobile devices. The stealthy adventure of your little Robin Hood is filled to the brim with bright colors, charming characters, and interesting puzzles. Figuring out how to lure guards away, grab your loot, and generally just cause trouble makes each screen a complete joy. Long story short, it’s pretty much impossible to play Tiny Thief and now end up smiling like the happiest of idiots. - Marty Sliva

Puzzle Craft’s core gameplay is simple enough to be accessible to anyone. Just draw lines to match and eliminate grass, wheat, carrots, chickens and other farm-themed tiles. But the game contains such a perfect gameplay loop that it’s almost impossible to put down. What starts as a simple time-killing farming puzzle session inevitably turns into a marathon of farming, mining, building, and more. All items collected while farming can be spent mining, earning resources like stone, gold, and silver. These precious elements are then spent building and upgrading your town thereby unlocking new puzzle bonuses. Everything serves a purpose, and you’re always one step away from another big reward. Puzzle Craft might just be the perfect time killer. - Justin Davis

Real Racing 3 is the best realistic racer available on mobile, and it’s available for free. It is genuinely possible to complete its hundreds of events and have dozens of hours of fun without putting in a cent. But freemium doesn’t equal fun on its own. Thankfully, Racing Racing 3 also nails the actual racing. The experience is technical and rewards proper play, forcing players to brake aggressively and take proper racing lines to win. With plenty of modes of play, real world cars that all handle differently, and control options that allow both casual and serious race fans to jump in, Real Racing 3 truly has something for everyone. - Justin Davis

Playing The Room for any stretch of time tends to elicit a constant stream of “aha!” moments – be it because you finally saw that one detail that’d been hiding from you in plain sight, or because the immersive potential of motion-based gaming was finally becoming apparent to you. Especially on a tablet, The Room achieved a parity between player input and on-screen results that truly sold the idea that you were actually manipulating and uncovering the secrets of a mystical device. Being equal parts point-and-click and puzzle game, The Room rests in a niche that few others can claim to share. - Vince Ingenito

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is one of those rare gems that’s completely unique unto itself. Its world is a dreamlike walkabout that treads the line between medieval fantasy and post-modernism. Interacting with the environment by pinching and tapping with the landscape feels so completely natural. The way its strange, Lynch-ian dialogue connected with Twitter was way ahead of its time. And the impeccable score by Jim Guthrie stands proudly as one of the finest of the past decade. Simply put, Sword & Sworcery remains as one of those experiences that solidified mobile platforms as a legitimate source for fantastic games. - Marty Sliva